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From: shafto@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Shafto)
Subject: 19th Annual Meeting, Cognitive Science Society
Message-ID: <1996Dec11.003422.5336@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:34:22 GMT
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Preliminary Call for Papers 
Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 
August 7-10, 1997, Stanford University 

For additional information, see  

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cogsci97/cogsci97.html

The annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society brings together researchers from 
many fields - including artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, philosophy, and 
psychology - who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the mind. 

The Society's Nineteenth Annual Conference will take place at Stanford University from 
August 7 to 10, 1997. The meeting will incorporate two features designed to attract 
participants from a broader range of fields than in previous years: 

The conference will include eight half-day symposia on topics that hold general interest to 
the cognitive science community but that include areas not well represented at the annual 
meeting. Each symposium will include survey talks by senior scientists in the area and 
invited research talks describing recent advances. 

Society members may each submit a single, one-page abstract that is guaranteed to appear 
in the proceedings. Authors of such abstracts can present posters at the conference, 
although the program committee may upgrade some to talks. Moreover, the deadline for 
abstracts will be one month later than that for full papers, and nonmembers may join the 
Society at the time of submission. 

Another difference is that submissions to the 1997 conference will have the same format as 
published papers. Thus, both full papers and abstracts should use two-column format with 
10 point type, 1 inch top margin, and 3/4 margins elsewhere. Authors can find templates 
that fit these specifications for LaTeX, Framemaker, Word, Word Perfect, and MacWrite 
on the World Wide Web in 

ftp://ftp-csli.stanford.edu:/pub/cogsci97/formats/ 

or through anonymous ftp to ftp-csli.stanford.edu in 

pub/cogsci97/formats 

Submissions should include the authors' names, physical addresses, and email addresses. 
Authors should send five hard copies of their submission to: 

      Cognitive Science 1997 
      CSLI / Computational Learning Laboratory 
      Ventura Hall, Stanford University 
      Stanford, CA 94305 USA 

Full papers must be no longer than six pages, including figures and references, and should 
arrive by February 4, 1997; abstracts must be no longer than one page and should arrive by 
March 4, 1997. We will return submissions that exceed these lengths to their authors. For 
express mailing purposes, specify the phone number (415) 723-1224. 

We hope you will join us for an exciting conference that will bring together researchers 
with a variety of backgrounds yet with a common interest in the maturing field of cognitive 
science. If you have questions or suggestions about the 1997 meeting, please send email to 
cogsci97@csli.stanford.edu or contact a member of the organizing committee: 

      Jeff Elman (elman@cogsci.ucsd.edu) 
      James Greeno (greeno@csli.stanford.edu) 
      Keith Holyoak (holyoak@psych.ucla.edu) 
      Pat Langley (langley@rtna.daimlerbenz.com) 
      Michael Shafto (mshafto@mail.arc.nasa.gov) 
      Paul Smolensky (paul@vonneumann.cog.jhu.edu) 

The Nineteenth Annual Conference has received support from the Daimler-Benz Research 
and Technology Center, Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information 
(CSLI), and the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise (ISLE). 

